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> shared content on the peer-to-peer network Making use of of peer to peer protocols to distribute content is something I wish more companies did. P2P lowers
by codetrotter 6y ago
> shared content on the peer-to-peer network
Making use of of peer to peer protocols to distribute content is something I wish more companies did.
P2P lowers the barrier to entry for new players in a domain, because it allows us to bring a product to the consumers with potentially drastically lower cost of operating, because we can provide service to our users without the massive bandwidth costs to our business.
This is good for the consumer too. So don’t be mad at companies that use P2P technology. Be in favor of it. And demand better terms from your ISP instead. So that the internet can continue to allow for innovation and competition, instead of further centralizing all of the power to only the biggest companies and slowing down innovation and hurting competition.
- mcculley 6y agoI understand that it was good for the network. But the Spotify app was scanning directories other than its own (e.g., it scanned ~/Music on macOS looking in your iTunes library). It could have through negligence or malfeasance shared any file on the machine.